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Set up parental controls on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, smart TV, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, Minecraft, Instagram Teen and WhatsApp for your child.
A guided parental-controls setup for each device and app your child uses. Pick one to get the settings in order of importance, the age-appropriate defaults, and what each control does and does not block. This page brings together 10 separate kids device setup guide pages (Android, Instagram (teen), iPad, iPhone, Minecraft, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Smart TV, WhatsApp (teen), Windows family) so you can compare them without hunting for the right one.
Open Kids Device Setup Guide on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Choose your device / app at the top: Android, Instagram (teen), iPad, iPhone and 6 more. On a phone it is a drop-down list.
Fill in the kids device setup guide for that device / app; each of the 10 options keeps its own rules, data and defaults.
Read the result, then switch device / app to compare. The page link keeps your device / app (?v=android), so you can bookmark or share it.
Android, Instagram (teen), iPad and the rest sit behind one picker, so switching device / app takes a tap instead of a new search.
Every device / app keeps its own rules, numbers and defaults rather than one generic template.
The link remembers the device / app you picked, so a bookmark or a shared link opens straight on it.
10: Android, Instagram (teen), iPad, iPhone, Minecraft, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, Smart TV, WhatsApp (teen), Windows family. Pick one at the top of the tool; the page link updates (for example ?v=android) so you can bookmark or share that exact view.
Below the local age of digital consent, which is 13 in India and the United States and as high as 16 in parts of the EU. Below that age the account has to be created through Family Link; above it, supervision is something the young person accepts and can later ask to remove.
Accounts registered as under 18 are private by default, can only be messaged by people they follow or are already connected to, get the most restrictive sensitive-content setting, can only be tagged or mentioned by people they follow, have nudity protection in DMs on, see a reminder after 60 minutes of use in a day, and have Sleep mode muting notifications overnight.
Not at home. Multi-user Shared iPad exists only for devices managed through Apple School Manager or a mobile device management service. A family iPad is one Apple Account, so either give the child their own iPad account or accept that the shared account's mail, messages and photos are visible to whoever is holding it.
No. If they match, every restriction can be switched off by anyone who has watched the child unlock the phone. Set a different four-digit Screen Time passcode and attach a recovery Apple Account you can actually sign into, because that is the only way back if you forget it.
Most of it is done outside the game: at account.xbox.com go to Privacy & online safety > Xbox privacy and set 'Others can communicate with voice, text, or invites' to Friends, and 'You can play with people outside of Xbox network' to Block. Inside the game, set Java chat to Hidden or Commands-only under Options > Chat Settings, or turn on the profanity filter on Bedrock.
15 minutes. The Parental Controls app accepts daily limits from 15 minutes up to 6 hours, in 15-minute steps, and the limit can be different for each day of the week.
In Family Management, open the child's profile and restrict Communication and User-Generated Content. That single setting covers messages, voice chat, and viewing or sharing other players' screenshots, videos and broadcasts. If you allow communication with friends, the friend list becomes the entire boundary, so review it regularly.
Require a PIN for every purchase and rental in the platform's store settings, and require it for adding channels or installing apps as well. The stronger version is to remove the saved card from the account entirely and top up with gift-card balance, because a PIN can be watched over a shoulder.
Go to Settings > Privacy > Groups and change it from Everyone to My contacts, or My contacts except. Anyone outside that list can then only send a private invite to join, and that invite expires after 72 hours if it is ignored.
Almost always because their Windows account is an administrator. An administrator can uninstall filtering, create another local account and switch off Defender. Change the account to Standard user in Settings > Accounts > Family & other users, and the rest of the controls start holding.